Bibliograph

The drone memos, targeted killing, secrecy, and the law

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The drone memos, targeted killing, secrecy, and the law

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The drone memos

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Sub title

targeted killing, secrecy, and the law

Summary

In the long response to 9/11, the US government initiated a deeply controversial policy of "targeted killing"-the extrajudicial execution of suspected terrorists and militants, typically via drones. A remarkable effort was made to legitimize this practice; one that most human rights experts agree is illegal and that the United States has historically condemned. In The Drone Memos, civil rights lawyer Jameel Jaffer presents and assesses the legal memos and policy documents that enabled the Obama administration to put this program into action. In a lucid and provocative introduction, Jaffer, who led the ACLU legal team that secured the release of many of the documents, evaluates the drone memos in light of domestic and international law. He connects the documents' legal abstractions to the real-world violence they allow, and makes the case that we are trading core principles of democracy and human rights for the illusion of security

Target audience

adult

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